Save a horse

[Mr. Wu]

[[Ride a Cowboy]]

So it begins now. The older poor man sat behind several bushes, watching with suspicious eyes as a couple of ten-year old kids ran right into the lab, to come back out with a Pokémon partner in tow. Each happy and giddy face he saw made him grimace even more on the outside, letting out a groan as he turned around, only his top hat showing from the cover of the foliage, twigs and leaves covering his body after struggling to sit there in the first place made him look like a hobo. Or at least an even bigger one than before.

The lab over there looked so, so, so high tech and fancy. Not a place for a dumb old man like him. There were freakin’ kids running in and out, some little girls bringing out these gay looking bunnies, he shuddered at the thought. There was no way that those things were even considered a Pokémon. A pet, maybe, but not a fighting partner through thick and thin.

He was beginning to consider simply going away, giving up on his dream when he saw one of the little boys he saw from earlier come up to him. Giving his hat a wide-eyed glance before turning to the Bellsprout beside him.

“Hey Buddy, use Vine Whip on it.” He grinned, thinking that Edward’s hat was a wild Pokémon, and he was whipped mercilessly out of the bushes, tearing his jacket in the process.

“Stop! Stop! Good god stop it right now!” He yelped, running straight into the Lab and crashing into the ground below. His breath was heavy on the white tiles; they were nice and cool, like an early morning shower. Edward slowly got back up onto his feet, his eyes wide with fear as strange technology was laid carelessly around him; high tech computers, gadgets, expensive looking books that he might’ve been interested in reading if he wasn’t so confused and baffled at the moment.

[Fanny]

The Professor rushed into the front room, and looked at the man surprised. "Wow!" Here, let me help. Slowly, he helped Edward over to the tables. "Well, I think you're here to get Pokemon, right?" He looked very unsure, most likely because of Edward's... oddity among all of the other people who had come to his lab. A man? Most uncommon. But there were few here and there....

{Sorry, short post. I'm watching something right now...}

[Mr. Wu]

[[Its fine, we all make short posts sometimes. ]]

Allowing himself to be lead to one of the sturdy lab tables, he blinked to take in everything around him once more. At least it was a lot more comfortable than being left on the floor with the dust bunnies. Seeing the man in front of him, he gave a weak smile, glad that none of the nearby children had gotten a look at that terrible fall. Sure, they probably saw the screaming and wimpy yelping, and the terrified running into the lab because of some death plant…Okay, now he felt guilty again.

’Say something you fool! Anything!’ He gulped, trying to think of something appropriate to say to this strange man. His vision was somewhat obscured by his hat so he couldn’t tell if the man was young or old, and no doubt he couldn’t tell that he was someone as famous as a Professor.

“Yes, yes I am. I suppose you are too…? I’m glad that I’m not the only guy 20 and up around here.” Edward chuckled sheepishly, trying to make the tension around him ease away into the distance. Though he wasn’t all that social, he felt that it would’ve been rude to just brush the man off after his kindness.

[Fanny]

The Professor nodded. "If you are to get far on your journey, I suggest you take this." He said. He walked into one of the many rooms in the lab and came back within two minutes. "Take a look. It's a pack for you to get started." Winking, he walked to the young man and held out the brown pack. "A bit plain, for my liking, but... those are the rules."

Smiling, he returned to his desk and began sorting out papers again. Suddenly, he looked up. "Woops.." He walked back to you. "Here's the things in your starter pack..."

A Starter Pack!


Pokeball x5

Potion x3

Oran Berry x10

Pokemon Egg x1

Pokedex x1

"And the poster for the Pokemon are over there." Pointing at the poster, he sighed quietly and finally walked out into another room.

[Mr. Wu]

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Edward just looked up at the Professor, completely startled by the man’s lack of decent manners and everything else. Was he in some kind of hurry? He knew he was just blown off, swept aside like an unwanted bottle of water for something more attractive. Recycle people! Recycle! The man growled to himself, gathering up the items in one mangled up bunch before placing them back inside of the funny looking starter pack. Now how childish was this? Later on, he’d go out and buy a nice suitcase inside of this child sized thing.

“Right.” He grumbled out, taking a glance at the nearby poster and could admit that it was at least a little bit exciting to look at. All of the Pokémon were listed in detailed pictures, their attacks listed in little captions below them, making him wonder what they were.

The first one he saw was the Buneary, letting out a shudder before continuing onward to take a glance at a Pokémon he had some experience with. Not this one perhaps, but one of its later evolutions when he was studying medicine in college. Bayleaf had the most extraordinary healing spores, and could cure quite a bit, making it at the moment, his favorite choice.

“I’ll take the Chikorita. “ He nodded to himself, noting that the Professor was long gone by now, leaving all of the Pokeballs defenseless to any intruder. But he was an honest man; he wouldn’t snatch up more than he needed. But it sure was temping…Just grabbing a random Pokeball labeled ‘Male Chokirita’, he scurried out the door as fast as he could.

[Fanny]

The Professor had just returned to the room after seeing him grab the male Chikorita Pokeball. "How unfortunate." He mumbled to himself. But it looked like he'd only taken one, and looking at the Pokeballs, he decided it was the male Chikorita. "Well, he's not a bad one." He chuckled, and, heading back to the room holding the Pokeballs, grabbed another 'Male Chikorita' Pokeball and put it into its place. "All better."

Chikorita Stats:


Attacks: Tackle, Growl, Grasswhistle
Gender: Male
Level: 5

[ommie]

WHEN I WAS MY MOM GOT SCARED AND SAID YOUR MOVIN WITH YOUR AUNTIE AND UNCLE IN BEL AIR